Last year the only veggie seeds I saved were for Peachy Mama peppers. We got these lots of times from the CSA I was a member of, and while I normally don’t like peppers except in salsa, I actually liked the sweet, fruity taste of these. Knowing I probably wouldn’t join the CSA this season, I saved a ton of Peachy Mama Pepper seeds. They’re an heirloom variety and really the only mention of them on the web I can find hooks them up to my former CSA. I’d save the tops with their seeds when I used them and leave them on the window sill to dry out.
This year, come seed-starting time, I dug out the little package I had made of seeds marked “peachy mama” and lovingly started them (also a few that were still in the dried pepper tops). They did very well! I even donated some to the Sotterley Plant Exchange. I planted mine in my garden. The bigger, it got, the more tomato-like the plant started looking. “Huh, weird,” I thought. “This must be an odd pepper plant!”
Buddha puts his hands up in confusion.
Except now my odd pepper plant is…making tomatoes?!?!
I have several problems with this:
- I DID NOT SAVE ANY TOMATO SEEDS AT ALL! Didn’t even try!
- These appear to be pear tomatoes. I did not grow or eat pear tomatoes at any time last year.
- I swear, those were Peachy Mama Pepper seeds I planted!!!
So I give up. I moved the pepper plants that surrounded it (and would have been appropriately spaced, had these 3 also been pepper plants and not mutant pepper tomato plants) to the bed where the broccoli and brussels sprouts were pulled up from. We’ll see what kind of tomatoes I get. But I am still UTTERLY CONFUSED, considering points 1 and 2 from above. wtf?!?
And now some other veggie garden pics, just because.
tomato bed - with 2 pepper plants, marigolds, and baby zinnias
A back view of the veggie beds, with proof you CAN see them (very well) from the road.
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I had a few surprise tomato plants last year, since they started later, I didn’t get quite the bounty as I did the year before.
I had lots of volunteer tomatoes (chocolate cherry always volunteers), but these were on purpose planted. Still confused!
Maybe the seeds were in some new soil or old soil in a pot or in some soil from stuff your Mom brought. Anyway, enjoys!! AAAHHH the wonder of it all!!
I wish I had of gotten a sign for you that I saw some time ago. It said, “I didn’t plant this!” I went back but it was gone.
I had some mystery tomatoes pop in my garden, but I figure they are from tomatoes that fell at the end of the season. The oddest thing, however, is that I had some planter boxes that I only planted herbs in. Tomato seeds were no where near the planters, and suddenly a tomato plant was growing there. It must have been from the soil I put in them, which was from a bag from the store, but it’s still very strange. I have yet to find out what my mystery tomatoes are, but that plant is doing the best by far in the garden now.